Really? It reminds me a heck of a lot of "Cyrano de Bergerac", except instead of a Frenchman with a long nose coaching a pretty boy with no talent for the poetic arts, you have a French rat with a long nose coaching an ugly boy with no talent for the cooking arts.

Not that I'm holding that against it; I've never failed to enjoy anything Pixar turns out, and that includes their old TV commercials. It's never about how original the story is, but how well they tell it. But let's not pretend it's completely original.

It's not Lassetter, but it still looks to be good. Brad Bird did The Incredibles after all.

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Don't forget his underappreciated creation for Fox, "The Iron Giant". Rent it somewhere if you haven't seen it yet.